Best Hospitals In Florida: 41 Make U.S. News 2020 Rankings
FLORIDA — U.S. News & World Report has released its latest list of the best hospitals in the United States. The data was derived before the coronavirus pandemic, so the impact on hospitals nationwide is not reflected in the latest rankings.
“The pandemic has altered, perhaps permanently, how patients get care and from whom they get it. Amid the disruption, we are steadfastly committed to providing the public with authoritative data for comparing hospital quality,” said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News. “No hospital’s clinical team came through this unprecedented health crisis unscathed.”
The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville tied for the best hospital in the state, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The 2020 best hospitals rankings rate providers by specialty, region and overall.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital in Miami was ranked No. 1 in the nation for ophthalmology.
Hospitals were ranked across 16 specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; ear, nose and throat; gastroenterology and GI surgery; geriatrics; gynecology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; ophthalmology; orthopedics; psychiatry; pulmonology and lung surgery; rehabilitation; rheumatology; and urology.
Of those, 12 are dictated mostly by data, while ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology are determined entirely by expert opinion, according to U.S. News.
Florida Hospital Rankings
These are the top-ranked hospitals in Florida by U.S. News for 2020–2021, including nine that are nationally ranked in certain specialties:
1. Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville, Jacksonille; nationally ranked in seven adult specialties
1. UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville; nationally ranked in nine adult and three children's specialties
3. AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando; nationally ranked in four adult specialties and one children's specialty
4. Tampa General Hospital, Tampa; nationally ranked in five adult specialties
5. Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami
5. Cleveland Clinic, Weston; nationally ranked in one adult specialty
7. Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater
7. Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota
9. Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando; nationally ranked in four children's specialties
9. University of Miami Hospital and Clinics–UHealth Tower, Miami; nationally ranked in two adult specialties
11. Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville; nationally ranked in one adult and three children's specialties
11. Doctors Hospital-Coral Gables, Coral Gables
11. NCH Baker Hospital, Naples
11. West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Miami
15. Gulf Coast Medical Center, Fort Myers
15. Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, Lakeland
15. Lee Memorial Hospital, Fort Myers
15. St. Joseph's Hospital-Tampa, Tampa
19. AdventHealth Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach
19. Ascension St. Vincent's Hospital Riverside, Jacksonville
19. Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton
19. Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, Vero Beach
19. Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines
19. Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood; nationally ranked in two children's specialties
19. Physicians Regional-Pine Ridge Hospital, Naples
19. South Miami Hospital, South Miami
19. Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven
28. AdventHealth Heart of Florida, Davenport
28. AdventHealth Waterman, Tavares
28. Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola
28. Cleveland Clinic Martin Heath, Stuart
28. Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine
28. Halifax Health Medical Center, Daytona Beach
28. Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne
28. Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
28. Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor
28. Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee
38. AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa
38. Baptist Hospital, Pensacola
38. Bethesda Hospital East, Boynton Beach
38. Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale
Honor Roll Hospitals
For the fifth year, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was ranked the best hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio was second, followed by Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
They were named to the Honor Roll for delivering exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care, according to U.S. News.
“The Honor Roll is geared to identifying hospitals that are both exceptionally good at the service they offer and offer a wide breadth of service,” Harder told Patch last year. By definition, he said, hospitals on the list are highly ranked across many or most specialties.
Here are the hospitals on the Honor Roll for 2020–2021:
1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York (tie)
4. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (tie)
6. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
7. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
8. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
9. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
11. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor
12. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
13. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
14. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
15. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
16. Mayo Clinic-Phoenix, Phoenix
17. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
18. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (tie)
18. Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles (tie)
20. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston
This year, the U.S. News rankings are accompanied by the “Hospital Heroes” project, a series of profiles highlighting more than 60 health care heroes from across the country.
“Our Hospital Heroes series is a tribute to recognizing individuals at urban and rural hospitals in communities across the country who have gone above and beyond during this unparalleled time in history,” Harder said.
Methodology
U.S. News & World Report said the 2020-21 rankings evaluated nearly every community hospital in America.
Only 134 hospitals out of over 4,500 were ranked in one specialty, while 563 hospitals were ranked among the best regional hospitals. A hospital was ranked regionally based on its performance in delivering complex and common care, U.S. News said. The rankings are jointly produced by U.S. News and RTI International, a North Carolina-based research organization.
Read the full U.S. News methodology for its best hospitals list.
— By Patch editors Tim Moran and Elizabeth Janney
This article originally appeared on the Tampa Patch